For the naacp Legal Defense fund. The organization that i am proud to say i work for and that is responsible for brown and fisher. And so i want to give a little bit of hello . I want to give sorry. I want to give a little bit of background about myself. I am ive been with the Legal Defense fund since march of this year. But worked in the Obama Administration and on the hill for quite some time. But this issue and the reason i am happy to be here with all of you today is personal to me. I am originally from new orleans but also went to school in selma, alabama. Which im sure all of you are familiar with. My father, dr. Norwood russo was the first black school sup superintendent in selma, alabama [ applause ] thank you. In 1987. When he arrived, selma was a very integrated School System. The selma city schools were incredibly integrated. They had, though, what is called inSchool Segregation. They had a tracking system where the majority of africanamerican students were in level three or
Good morning. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. We welcome those who are joining us on our website as well as those joining us on the cspan network. We would ask everyone inhouse to be so kind to check that our mobile the vices have been checked and turned off as a cortices. Those watching online you are welcome to ask questions any time by emailing speaker at heritage. Org. Leading our program today and welcoming and introducing our special guest is Ronald Reagan emeritus aschairman well as the 75th of attorney general of the United States edwin meese. [applause] mr. Meese thank you, john. Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. I joined john and welcome you. Heritage has done a great deal in the policing and Public Safety areas and we are pleased to have our keynote speaker today. It is a pleasure for me to introduce him since we have known each other a number of years. Believe it or not i think we first met when we were first at harvard, for the executive session in policing they had
The pennsylvania secretary of education, pedro rivera. Thank you for being with us. The proposed budget for your department in the coming year is about 6 billion. Where does that money go . Mr. Rivera first, thank you for the opportunity. It is an interesting topic of conversation as you are looking specifically at Education Funding. The vast majority of ending is actually passed through to School Districts. We are a relatively Small Department in terms of service to 500 districts across the commonwealth including 174 harder schools and Technical Education Centers Charter Schools and Technical Education centers. But most of our funding is for but how do you allocate that questio . Mr. Rivera we are proud of some of the work we have in engaged in. For the first time, pennsylvania has a basic Education Funding formula. Historically we had run our lending through a legislative process, meaning wherever you started ended last year is where you would start this year. The first time over two
It was a busy week for President Trump it started with a confrontational speech at the United Nations tuesday where he threatened to totally destroy north korea if the u. S. Were forced to defend itself or its allies. Rocket man is on a Suicide Mission forielf. Hfoanr dickerson condemned once again the Iranian Nuclear deal t let a murderous regime continue these destabilizing activities while building dangerous missiles. Dickerson followed up on that tough talk on north korea by imposing sanctions on Foreign Countries that trade with north korea. In an effort to further isolate the regime and force them to the negotiating table. Friday, jongun made a rare move of responding directly to the president. Trump has denied existence of and insulted me and my country in front of the eyes of the world. I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged dotard with fire. The president characteristically responded by twitter. Jongun who is obviously a madman who doesnt mind starving or kill
The nation im john dickerson. It was a busy week for President Trump it started with a confrontational speech at the United Nations tuesday where he threatened to totally destroy north korea if the u. S. Were forced to defend itself or its allies. Rocket man is on a Suicide Mission for himself. And for his regime. Dickerson condemned once again the Iranian Nuclear deal agreed to. We cannot let a murderous regime continue these destabilizing activities while building dangerous missiles. Dickerson followed up on that tough talk on north korea by imposing sanctions on Foreign Countries that trade with north korea. In an effort to further isolate the regime and force them to the negotiating table. Friday, jongun made a rare move of responding directly to the president. Trump has denied existence of and insulted me and my country in front of the eyes of the world. I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged dotard with fire. The president characteristically responded by twitter.